The New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program, joined by several prominent figures in Central Kentucky's Thoroughbred breeding and sales industry, held a ceremonial groundbreaking to celebrate the construction of its new retraining and adoption facility at Mereworth Farm in Lexington, Ky., on Wednesday.
Not For Sale, an Argentine Group 1 winner and sire of runners including Asiatic Boy and Miss Serendipity, died Monday due to colic.
The Breeders' Cup has announced that Hagyard Equine Medical Institute of Lexington, Ky., has been named an official partner of the Breeders' Cup World Championships, in the Equine First Response Unit category.
Twirling Candy propelled himself atop the current freshman sire standings with two maiden special weight winners, Uptown Twirl and Twirling Cinnamon, last week, according to Daily Racing Form’s SirePowered Results.
Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky. has revealed the advertised Southern Hemisphere stud fees for its stallions remaining at the farm’s Kentucky base for the summer. The group is led by Spendthrift’s cornerstone stallion Malibu Moon, who will stand the Southern Hemisphere season for $25,000.
Commercial breeders did not expect a great deal from 2004 Belmont Stakes winner Birdstone when he retired to Gainesway in 2005, and as a result, his first crop included only 67 named foals. When two of those 67 foals turned out to be 2009 Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird and 2009 Belmont Stakes winner and champion 3-year-old male Summer Bird, however, perception of Birdstone’s potential as a sire and patronage by breeders changed somewhat.
The Maryland Racing Commission approved a plan on Tuesday to slow outgoing monies from the Maryland-bred fund through the end of the year, The Racing Biz reports.
Multiple Grade 2 winner Forty Tales will shuttle to Haras Barlovento in El Salvador, Peru for the 2015 Southern Hemisphere breeding season.
Noble Bird earned the first Grade 1 victory of his career in Saturday night’s Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs, holding off Lea in a furious stretch rally. The Foster was the first Win and You’re In qualifying race toward the Breeders’ Cup Classic, to be contested Oct. 31 at Keeneland. With Noble Bird now targeting the major summer stakes en route to the fall event, sire Birdstone, standing at Gainesway in Lexington, Ky., is poised for a solid season.
The sixth and final day of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age sale under-tack show saw three more juveniles tie for the fastest overall time for a one-furlong breeze Saturday, bringing the number of horses to work in 9.80 seconds to 16.
